From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RUUHV-0005jb-0t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:15:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B66921C1D3; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jumpgate.rods.id.au (ppp196-18.static.internode.on.net [59.167.196.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1574B21C044 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jumpgate.rods.id.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jumpgate.rods.id.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE0A1DA0033 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:14:43 +1100 (EST) Received: by jumpgate.rods.id.au (Postfix, from userid 81) id F05231DA0034; Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:14:42 +1100 (EST) To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install problem - SATA CD-ROM drive (SOLVED) X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:func.inc Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:14:42 +1100 From: Rod In-Reply-To: <17635071.NObeTONUHs@tux> References: <3002160.HuQVx7n6jd@tux> <2369246.SQS5bAGJmN@tux> <4ED0792C.8000802@gmail.com> <17635071.NObeTONUHs@tux> Message-ID: X-Sender: Rod@Rods.id.au User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.4.2 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: b5293f6e-bd0c-42f7-9b64-8175ffc5c270 X-Archives-Hash: 045a92bb56de49270ba870a965c918c0 On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:36:56 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:29:16 PM Dale wrote: >> Paul Colquhoun wrote: >> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:28:50 PM Albert W. Hopkins wrote: >> >> On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 11:01 +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote: >> >>> Some research tells me that this is a problem with SATA CD-ROMs, >> and >> >>> needs a >> >>> kernel configured with the libata module option atapi_enabled=1 >> >>> >> >>> Does anybody know of a Live CD that will work with a SATA CD >> drive? >> >> >> >> AFAIK most (all) modern computers that have CDROM drives are >> SATA, at >> >> least the one i bought a couple of years ago does.. so I'm >> wondering >> >> if >> >> your problem is not that you have a SATA CDROM but something >> else. >> >> >> >> Have you tried boot media other than the Gentoo livecd? >> > >> > Actually I had tried 4 boot media *other* *than* the Gentoo >> livecd, for >> > the simple reason that I thought they had stopped making them! >> > >> > Stupid me. >> > >> > Looking at the Gentoo download page, they have an AMD64 minimal >> install >> > CD image created just days ago. >> > >> > The Gentoo livecd works! I should have looked there first and >> saved >> > myself a lot of trouble (and 4 blank CDs!). >> >> Could it be something in the BIOS maybe? My rig that I built last >> year >> has a SATA CD/DVD burner and it boots Gentoo CDs, Knoppix, >> systemrescue >> and another that I can't recall. Knotix (?) or something. It >> should >> work. You may want to try systemrescue if you haven't already. I'd >> figure this out before something happens and you have to boot >> something >> to fix it. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > > > It may be something in the BIOS, but I didn't change anything between > the > other livecds NOT working, and the Gentoo one working, so the Gentoo > livecd > seems to have done something different. I have been running SATA-DVD drive (ok not CD) for a few years with no problems with reading or writing from either Gentoo-Linux or Windoze